Flow = rythm: the syllable placement along a drum line, and the way you syncopate your words to alter your timing over a beat

Delivery = the emotion, tones, and changes in your voice that you use to give your lyrics and flow more impact and resonance

Some people ride a beat with perfect rythm and timing, but they have no emotion or personality in their voice. Some people have a really booming delivery and vocal approach, but they don't have a very fluid flow.

Canibus, for example, has a weak delivery, but he plods over a beat pretty smoothely sometimes... but the lack of animation or change in his cadence makes him sound robotic and monotonous to where unless you concioussly follow his rhyme scheme you won't really hear how he's hittin' the beat. Chino XL gets all hype and crazy with his voice sometimes, but he's on and offbeat with his flow and crunches words into a bar to where none of the syllables are really hitting any of the drum patterns. Which makes him sound into what he's spittin, but not really into the beat he's spittin on.

Id say its easily debatable that Em is the GOAT, Ive thought he was at times. His first 3 albums were all ridiculous, and then that 8 mile shit oh my god. Hes probably the best ever with words. With rhymes. Hes versatile as fuck unlike a lot of cats who get goat mentions. People consider Jay-Z the goat. So how is Em not gonna get goat consideration. Jay-Z? dope as fuck but pretty 1d, horrible catalogue (2 classics and a bunch of garb) not a great writer by any stretch, yet he still gets hyped. Em does it all well, drops one bad album and "he fell off."

Nas
Em
Jay

and yeah, Infinite was dope too, some cases of going overboard w/ the multies but after that album, he wrapped everything up nicely and kept on topic.

Flow = rythm: the syllable placement along a drum line, and the way you syncopate your words to alter your timing over a beat

Delivery = the emotion, tones, and changes in your voice that you use to give your lyrics and flow more impact and resonance

Some people ride a beat with perfect rythm and timing, but they have no emotion or personality in their voice. Some people have a really booming delivery and vocal approach, but they don't have a very fluid flow.

Canibus, for example, has a weak delivery, but he plods over a beat pretty smoothely sometimes... but the lack of animation or change in his cadence makes him sound robotic and monotonous to where unless you concioussly follow his rhyme scheme you won't really hear how he's hittin' the beat. Chino XL gets all hype and crazy with his voice sometimes, but he's on and offbeat with his flow and crunches words into a bar to where none of the syllables are really hitting any of the drum patterns. Which makes him sound into what he's spittin, but not really into the beat he's spittin on.